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Towards a visual notation for pipelining in a visual programming language for programming FPGAs

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CHINZ '06: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand chapter's international conference on Computer-human interaction: design centered HCI

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1152760.1152761

Published: 06 July 2006 Publication History

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VERTIPH is a visual language designed to aid in the development of image processing algorithms on FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). We justify the use of a visual language for this purpose, and describe the key parts of VERTIPH. One aspect of importance is how to clearly and efficiently represent a pipeline of processors, and in particular distinguish a pipeline from the simpler serial or parallel structures. This paper develops a number of pipeline representations, discussing the rationale behind and limitations associated with each representation. The culmination of this development is the Sequential Pipeline with Detailed Bars, visually an efficient and unambiguous representation.

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CHINZ '06: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand chapter's international conference on Computer-human interaction: design centered HCI

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DOI:10.1145/1152760

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https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119819820.ch3
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